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So far this year, 2,500 people have died and there has been a loss of 41 billion dollars i.e. about 3.43 lakh crore rupees due to deteriorating weather caused by climate change events. Amid the scorching heat in India, the British-based NGO Christian Aid has published this horrifying report.
According to the report, these extreme weather events in the last six months are likely to be caused by climate change. This assessment has been done after an international climate conference (COP28) in Dubai in December last year. According to the NGO, there has been little progress in the UAE since COP28 to divest from fossil fuels and support poor countries in dealing with climate disasters. The second week of climate talks in Bonn, Germany on Monday said that the numbers show that the cost of the climate crisis is already being felt.
Christian Ede, the head of the NGO, said rich countries are most responsible for the greenhouse gases that are warming the atmosphere. They must accept responsibility and increase their funding for disaster relief to help other countries prepare for and recover from extreme weather events.
More lives were lost in India due to heat
According to environmentalist Dr. Seema Javed, heat is causing large scale deaths in India. The economic loss caused by this has not been assessed. But people's efficiency has been affected. The risk of floods is also increasing in the Gulf countries due to climate change. According to the report, the insured loss in the United Arab Emirates was $ 850 million. While the combined heat wave in West, South and Southeast Asia has killed more than 1,500 people, in Myanmar alone, very few deaths have been recorded due to heat.
The actual figures are expected to be higher than this
According to the report, the $42 billion loss is an underestimate because the calculation is based on insurance. This figure does not fully include the cost of loss of human life due to disasters. At least 169 people were killed in Brazil and economic losses amounted to at least seven billion dollars.